>>2073694 he's not me. I mean the quill is aluminum, the top is thicker and white, is it cased in plastic? sounds like you don't know why it's like that, but does anyone know? I'm guessing just for looks but that's a pretty odd thing to do, I feel like there's a reason for it
>>2074088 well you do need foot retention if you want to take this seriously. half-clips might be a good choice if you're not willing to just learn clipless yet.
>>2074088 You could skip the clipless if you stuck big ass knobbies on there and a leather saddle and a rear rack of some sort, but the setup you have here is kind of cringe
>>2074088 I don't see what the big deal is. and if /n/'s criticisms are >bottle color >light >accurate frame size (MAAAAAANLET!) >foot retention (most valid, you might like it but nothing wrong with flats depending on use case/preference) then you're probably ok
>>2074089 >gay bottle color. This is an LGBTQIA2S+ safe space, bigot. >>2074092 Ravemen TR350 standard size. You're just a little guy. >>2074101 I'm a guy on the bigger side. I'm 5'6" 10 stone. >>2074111 >>2074113 >>2074116 Maybe I'll try the PD-EH500 pedals and fall over sideways at red lights.
>>2074220 Yes, its weed. Its feral industrial hemp and its a ubiquitous ditch weed in the midwest and basically has no THC and fucks with marijuana grows by blasting it with non THC industrial hemp plant sperm making it functionally extinct in outdoor grows.
>>2074127 anon, riding a fixie and dating a tranny is basically the same already: highly impractical, maybe a handful of weirdos you ever meet will find it cool, and everyone else will think you’re some kind of freak also, don’t feel emasculated if hers is bigger (the gear ratio, of course)
Spent nearly £2000 on a Bike and haven't used it in over a week. West London is just horrible to ride around. I thought I'd go further out to near the countryside and it was even worse. We need the fire of London again, this city is a piece of crap
>>2074258 Industrial? I have some Hemp bottoms, they were so expensive, I don't know why, it's just a god damn weed. Why do these companies always scam us?
>>2074298 Its the mom bike. She can't handle a higher saddle and I put on that massive padded "seat" for her. She had it lower but through improvement of her form it was raised to that height.
>>2074279 Yeah. The joogle chatbot sums it up nicely. It it a tall straight hemp that was grown all over the Midwest that went feral when weed was banned despite it having a mutation that makes it have no THC. You literally can't get high off it and it is treated as a weed. I grew up using it to tie seedling pepper and tomato plants to sticks to keep them upright in my parent garden. You just peel it and it's natural string that burns and composts. I guess deer and turkeys and shit eat the seeds. There are always some advocates trying to get it unbanned but get lumped in with the potheads that try to use it to unban marijuana so it goes nowhere but there the plant is in every rural ditch growing throughout the midwest US as a weed.
>>2074509 >Hemp is a legal crop in the United States. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China and Canada.
>>2074550 so why tf when I buy paper towels and printer paper and toilet paper, it's all from trees and there's no hemp options? I'm talking about at my neighborhood grocery.
>>2074552 hemp is for making cloth. plant fiber paper is really tough and not really suitable for disposable stuff since it will clog your toilet and isn't very soft. you can find shit like "reusable shop towels" made of hemp, though bamboo ones are nicer and cotton/polyester is just cheaper
basically cotton and poly slop being so ubiquitous makes hemp goods rarer by just being drowned out of the market by cotton or synthetics
>>2074842 I bought it at a camping store in Korea after a 35 mile bike trip I did there when I discovered that most of the camping sites there tend to run out of rented tents way faster than they run out of camping spots. 2-man pop-up tents like this one fold down to roughly the same size in their pouch as a 19-inch bike wheel. And the shipping pouch that came with it can easily be zip-tied over a rear wheel cargo rack for carrying the tent. But make sure the punch and grommet some holes into the bottom of the shipping pouch so it won't collect rain water.
Due to the shape of this style of tent the ones with an included rain over-cover don't fair any better at keeping rain from leaking in at either end. So if you want an all-weather tent the traditional ones with collapsible poles are a better choice and pack smaller anyway.
>>2074844 I haven't had a car in 12 years, and I live 10 miles outside of the city. And I dont take ride shares. I use a bike everyday for everything I do, often all day. Everyone on this board ia a casual compared to me.
>>2074850 I really just need a nylon deplorable coffin as a mosquito net. Have have thw cheapest wally world tent already. . Even when I was camping, id just leave it up where it was and just come back whenever, cause its the current year. I shouldn't have to build a fucking yurt everyday just to protect my shit.
>>2074871 I haven't had a car since 2002, and I also use a bike for everything, and none of them have been motorized. so get out of your own asshole. there's an ebike thread for you.
>>2074889 I think it's the same guy who has been e-statting hard for the last few weeks, he had a spergout last week about what I can't remember, but there was a cope-ious amount of dick waving about his slightly longer than extreme-casual mileage, I remember that
>>2074893 It usually begins because someone accuses them of not riding, then they go on defense. Then the other person pretends that isn't what happened and calls it dick-waving. It's how /n/ has been for years. Every now and then though, we get someone who thinks they are genuinely mogging everyone else because they don't know any better. At least with e-bikers we all know they actually aren't riding or serious about riding at all.
>>2074889 I have no interest in being that. Its mans greatest technological failure that a motor to replace a humans incredibly modest power isnt standardized and almost a human right.
>>2074893 >>2074895 >dentist lycra circle jerk I dream as being a tough as you 150 pound monsters.
>>2074913 If nobody has to be serious about it, why do fat copers constantly attack people who ride more than them? Also, why do people riding motor vehicles feel compelled to set foot in the bicycle community? They aren't cyclists.
>>2074923 >we Oh you sweet innocent thing. There is no "we" in cycling. Never was, never will be. That's probably why you're so confused. Now scurry on back to /r/bicycling/, I'm sure they'll give you lots of updoots for your new Trek or whatever.
>>2074926 >everyone who disagrees with me is an e-bike Can you see why nobody believes you when you claim you've been at this for more than a few months, a year at best?
>>2074953 I get it man enjoy ur bike. but i have watched plenty of niggas start out on relaxed ebikes and swear by them and then just… actually get fit get real bikes and never look back, never complain that they are uncomfortable. ride further and faster, basically better in every way Can kinda get the ebikery for camping and carrying shit but ay still so limited on range that it would not be something id want
>>2074961 I had a ride on a customers electra townie, pretty solid bike. >>2074968 I have had road and hybrid bikes longer than that giant, just dont want to excert myself on swampy days and stuff.
>>2074912 Yeah I dont care how it gets done. Batteries have something like 900 times less energy density than petrol. The highest mileage vehicle is a micro turbo diesel.
As the ebikes go up in price with an increase in motor size, so as so many complain about here; so fat lazy morons use them to go 60 miles at 40mph, on sidewalks and then think they arent assholes. There is no 250 watt motor with a 1000 mile battery. I just want my peak output cloned with endless duration.
You dentists cant imagine how hard life is for hyper responsible, not undeservedly wealth, non-sucker real people.
I rided after not rididing for 6 weeks. Big mad that I am this out of shape. Just went to faceberg on a grabel trail that ran along the highway and had to stop and have a moment to cool down. Very bad
>>2074981 >There is no 250 watt motor with a 1000 mile battery you could just get a 250 watt motor kit with the ridiculous 1000 mile dual giganigga battery setups off a 1000w e-moto
you can also just get the giganigga e-moto but not go at 60kmh on the sidewalk everywhere, much like big honkin turbodiesels get shockingly good mileage as fleet vehicles because the wagies driving them are always at 3000rpm instead of 8000 and actually do the speed limit by GPS enforcement
Dentists and Freds are unironically why I built a moped after getting an e-bike. Don't like that I don't have to pedal as hard to get to work? Lemme dump the clutch on you real quick
>>2075193 Trying to restore a 90s MTB my uncle gave me, but I can't find any 26" wheels or tires at any of my local LBSs. Is it even possible to find anything under 32" outside of AliExpress anymore?
>>2075209 this but unironically. hub motors are objectively superior and the only reason to do mid drive is you want to hide that you got an ebike. embrace it anon. bathe in the seethe it generates to have that BIG BLVCK DISC powering your bike right at the wheel.
Or if you truly must do mid drive, do it moped style with a bigass conventional motor turning your non-drive side into a second drive side with its own independent drivetrain
>>2075241 >>2075232 there's a lot of small things wrong and definite meme slavery but on th whole it doesnt look any worse than any other Trek at a glance
>>2075245 That only real problem I could see is that lace pattern isn't as "strong" as a more traditional one. Otherwise the memery is >billy bonkers >drop bars on mtb frame fine imo >surly hated because popular >>2075000 sickest bike in this thread? >>2074336 I don't understand your language but can appreciate the skill behind it. >>2074252 bike camping on grandma bike is hard, if I saw you loaded up I would be jelly. >>2074088 Bike is too nice for flat pedals.
>>2075247 >billy bonkers Unfortunately the only 26" gravely tire available in Europe that's not heavy af >drop bars on mtb frame I'm on the fence about this myself, actually. >surly Heavy, but sturdy lots of mounting points
I think this picture makes the proportions look bad. I like it a lot IRL.
>>2075247 >>drop bars on mtb frame that is in no way an MTB frame other than Trek writing down that it is in a piec eof marketing copy. that is a stock standard 90s/00s road bike design. it doesn't even have a suspension fork. the bars themselves are horrendous though
>>2075245 nta but >shitty lacing >meme tires >bars are unusable seat angle is dumb >actual unironic "old thing good becuz unc" v brakes >rims appear damaged, owner probably hasnt changed brake shoes ever, not even cleaned anything >bottle carrier appears to be backwards "gravel bikes" are themselves a massive meme as well, dickwaving about frame stiffness and ebin fast drivetrain and le aero posture to go on a rough path thus losing every advantage a modern road bike has to things like "the path not being perfectly flat" and your shit bouncing around all crazy, losing energy >bbbut i run le toobless fast tire great, so you dickwave about a stiff racing frame that gives you 100% efficiency foot to wheel and then throw tires on it to absorb energy. hmmmm
>>2075250 nta >bars are unusable how? >seat angle is dumb if it works for him, what's wrong with it? >v brakes look like cantilever to me >bottle carrier appears to be backwards it's clearly not >great, so you dickwave about a stiff racing frame that gives you 100% efficiency foot to wheel and then throw tires on it to absorb energy. hmmmm what are you even saying here
>>2075245 imo putting a weak lacing pattern and aero spokes (which he previously admitted was only for looks, super lame) on an off-road bike, and switching to a Cues drivetrain seems like gimping it. dunno what it had before or what condition it was in, but Cues seems wrong except on casual or city bikes.
>>2075282 he might just be stupid and new. a lot of off-boarders come here with questions. he probably saw the thread about 32s being new and just assumed it was already the standard. or he's a shitty troll but w/e
>>2075288 >Cues seems wrong except on casual or city bikes. Wut? Cues is also for MTBs, not just casual and city bikes. It's a very wide product range.
>>2075309 the whole bike is set up as "haha look at me I'm an unracer but I ride gravel uwu"
if you ride anything at all you would know that fork and wheel stiffness are critical to handling and a simple glance at this bike is sufficient to know that it isn't ridden on gravel or anywhere else. it is pure cringe.
>>2075311 So what's actually wrong with the fork? You said a lot of nothing, just spewing out your head cannon, and vaguely mentioning stiffness. What's wrong with a compliant fork?
>>2075314 are you insane? it's a fucking 1970s brazed fork. if I took that bike on the shitty little beginner trails that I did last night I would have died.
>>2075351 Icm happy to see you found my insult so amusing that you decided you're going to start spamming it everywhere. Ironically you don't realize what you're doing is simply announcing your own presence in the 3rd person
>>2075311 >if you ride anything at all you would know that fork and wheel stiffness are critical to handling Why them do MTBs involve the coil and gas spring suspension ?